Instructions of the Honorable Robert Hunter Morris, Esq., Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania and counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware to Scarroyady, one of the Chiefs of the Oneida Nation and Mr. Andrew Montour of the County of Cumberland.

[1755]

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The men were to notify the Oneida and other Nations of the cruel behavior of the Delaware of Ohio. Morris thanked the men for making the difficult journey. They were to use the wampum they carried as they saw fit. The first task was to console with the Nations over the Indians who had been lost while fighting with the English, then make the included speech. In appropriate language, that text called out the perfidious behavior of the Delaware. Morris reminded the listeners that it was just last year that all the Nations and the English renewed the treaties and burnished the Chain of Friendship. He never dreamed "hearts could be poisoned by the enemy" in such a short time. He used graphic language to describe the attack on a largely unarmed population. Morris wanted to know if the Nations directed the attacks, and if not, could they stop it?

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